#shed

His hands uncupped himself and he stared downward. It was a long while before he spoke, and when he did, his words were slow and considered … and as ceaseless as his quiet tears. “I wish I were whole. I wish I could have given you young if you’d wanted them and could conceive them. I wish I could have told you that it killed me when you thought I had been with anyone else. I wish I had spent the last year waking up every night and telling you I loved you. I wish I had mated you properly the evening you came back to me from the dead. I wish …” Now his shimmering stare flipped up to hers. “I wish I were half as strong as you are and I wish I deserved you. And … that’s about it. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#love

It's over. Absolutely, completely, eternally over ↗

— Alyson Noel

#love #over #love

My love, I’d volunteer to live a thousand lives if I got to spend any part of them with you. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#bittersweet-seraphim #crushed-seraphim #debra-anastasia #devil #jack

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. ↗

— Richard Bach

#alive #earth #find #finished #here

If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more. The latter is perhaps the truest theory. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#love #love

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#polished #rock #smooth #wisdom #wise

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blood #cheap #cost #freedom #much

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#burn #come #end #finished #happen

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#blood #freedom #nations #period #post-war

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#bar #finished #give #going #got